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3# Common notation
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5For most of our examples, the spatial discretization
6uses high-order finite elements/spectral elements, namely, the high-order Lagrange
7polynomials defined over $P$ non-uniformly spaced nodes, the
8Gauss-Legendre-Lobatto (GLL) points, and quadrature points $\{q_i\}_{i=1}^Q$, with
9corresponding weights $\{w_i\}_{i=1}^Q$ (typically the ones given by Gauss
10or Gauss-Lobatto quadratures, that are built in the library).
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12We discretize the domain, $\Omega \subset \mathbb{R}^d$ (with $d=1,2,3$,
13typically) by letting $\Omega = \bigcup_{e=1}^{N_e}\Omega_e$, with $N_e$
14disjoint elements. For most examples we use unstructured meshes for which the elements
15are hexahedra (although this is not a requirement in libCEED).
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17The physical coordinates are denoted by
18$\bm{x}=(x,y,z) \equiv (x_0,x_1,x_2) \in\Omega_e$,
19while the reference coordinates are represented as
20$\bm{X}=(X,Y,Z) \equiv (X_0,X_1,X_2) \in \textrm{I}=[-1,1]^3$
21(for $d=3$).
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